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Emerson

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɛmə.sən//
  • United States//ˈɛmɚ.sən//

A surname originating as a patronymic.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname originating as a patronymic.

  2. 2

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

  3. 3

    rareA female given name transferred from the surname.

  4. 4

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer.

  5. 5

    A city in Georgia, Bartow County, United States.

  6. 6

    A city in Mills County, Iowa.

  7. 7

    A town in Manitoba.

  8. 8

    A village in Nebraska.

  9. 9

    A borough of Bergen County, New Jersey.

Etymology

Etymology tree English Emery Proto-Indo-European *sew-? Proto-Indo-European *sewH- Proto-Indo-European *suHnús Proto-Germanic *sunuz Proto-West Germanic *sunu Old English sunu Middle English sone Middle English -son English -son English Emerson From Emery + -son.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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